"Identity intelligence software can be used to strategically reduce audit risks, clean up directories and mine roles," said Nelson Cicchitto, chairman and CEO, Avatier. "Additionally, used in conjunction with an identity and access management solution, identity intelligence delivers an even greater amount of data that could be used to further strengthen an organization's security."

Without a firm grasp on an organization's available identity data, information security professionals cannot properly analyze and decipher the data to understand their organization's identity landscape. As a result, valuable information that could be used to improve security is overlooked. For example, identity intelligence used to investigate core directories can reveal information on active or disabled accounts, last password change date, group memberships, access privileges and account policy information. And when combined with HR data available from other identity management software solutions and applications, information security professionals can determine if any terminated and existing employees still have active accounts or improper access in their organizations' systems.

About AvatierAvatier software and services automate IT operations. Our identity management and access governance solutions make organizations the most secure, compliant and productive in the shortest time and at the lowest cost. Avatier is the only company providing an integrated software suite of solutions that adapts to the needs of the business user, delivering a unified framework for business processes across operations. Avatier products are deployed worldwide across 16 vertical markets and hundreds of organizations with millions of managed user identities. The company's Identity Management Software (AIMS) suite incorporates products for user provisioning, password management; access governance and IT risk management. All solutions represent the quickest time to value and the best operational efficiencies in the industry because of their innovative use of graphical configuration versus complex coding and scripting. Avatier is based in San Ramon, Calif. and is privately held. For more information on Avatier Corporation, go to http://www.avatier.com or call 800-609-8610.